Saturday 28 November: Federal and State Government round-up of press releases and announcements
Federal: $4 million for new COVID-19 research: View Here
VIC: Fairer Payment Terms For Small Businesses Here To Stay: View Here
QLD: New laws to strengthen disability worker screening: View Here
WA: New NDIS worker screening takes effect from February 2021: View Here
NT: An extra Public Holiday for Territorians in 2020: View Here
TAS: Support available for Tasmanian landlords: View Here
NZ: European private equity firm axes $1.46 billion takeover of NZ village operator Metlifecare blaming COVID-19
As we covered here in January, Metlifecare – which has 25 villages – had signed…
Health officials and NSW government ministers considering plan to let COVID-19 infect Australia slowly
With the rate of infections falling across the country, social distancing measures to prevent the…
70 disability advocacy organisations push National Cabinet for same access to PPE as aged care workers after support worker dies from COVID-19
The national, State and Territory groups want the Government to ensure the supply of Personal…
NSW: resident at Anglicare’s St Lukes retirement village in Dapto diagnosed with COVID-19
Anglicare tells us the resident had returned to the village, which is co-located with its…
WA: Amana Living launches one-week COVID-19 Direct Care training
The Amana Living Training Institute (ALTI)’s COVID-19 Direct Care Skill Set program will be available…
New toolkit for helping people from CALD backgrounds make submissions to Royal Commission – extension on the cards?
A reminder that the Royal Commission is still ticking along in the background. The Federation…
WHO: face masks can’t stop health people from getting COVID-19
Last Friday, we reported that the World Health Organization (WHO) was looking at recommending people…
Canada: aged care residents make up almost 50% of COVID-19 deaths – local governments overturning workplace agreements and boosting staff wages
An insight into the devasting impact that COVID-19 can have on aged care homes –…
Scotland: aged care home operators call on army and GPs to combat COVID-19
Desperate times – desperate measures? The country’s peak industry body Scottish Care has asked for…
How many cases of coronavirus are there currently in Australia?
As of 3pm 7 April 2020, there were 5,908 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia…
Government says residential care providers will be paid if staff need to self-isolate – with extra workers sourced through ‘aged care disrupter’ Mable – 8,000 staff available
All residential care providers will be covered for the cost of hiring extra staff and…
Australia to have half a billion masks by end of 2020, Health Minister says
Greg Hunt has revealed the Government now has contracts in place to produce domestically or…